Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Oct 20, 1989, 12:00 PM EDT for Greene County, New York. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 20, 1989, 12:00 PM EDT (16:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 20, 1989, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greene County, NY
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 52 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 468 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 756 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 20, 7:43 AM EDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK TROOP F 0745AM EDT FRI OCT 20 1989 FLIB WLSR 01038 FILE 28 PD LIBERTY NY0522000 OCT 22-89 TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STANDARD HYDROLOGIC EXCHANGE FORMAT DATE OF OBSERVATION: 10/20/89 TIME OF OBSERVATION: 07:00 AM EST OBSERVATION ID #: LBTN6/ PERCIP: 1.02/ WX: RAIN/ HIGH TEMP: 44 / LOW TEMP: 37 / CURRENT TEMP: 43 / REMARKS: NEW SNOW: / TOTAL SNOW ON GROUND: / RIVER: / PERCIP YESTERDAY MORNING: / AUTH AND SENT PAUL H LEROY 7-43 AM
Local storm report, Oct 20, 11:56 AM EDT, 4 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK TROOP F 1158AM EDT FRI OCT 20 1989 FLIB WLSR 01039 FILE 28 PD LIBERTY NY0522000 OCT 20-89 TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STANDARD HYDROLOGIC EXCHANGE FORMAT DATE OF OBSERVATION: 10/20/89 TIME OF OBSERVATION: 11:30 AM EST OBSERVATION ID #: LBTN6/ PERCIP: .85 / WX: RAIN/ HIGH TEMP: / LOW TEMP: / CURRENT TEMP: 50 / REMARKS:.85" OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 7:00AM TODAY IN THE VILLAGE OF LIBERTY-PRESENT TEMPERATURE IS 52 DEGREES--BROOK/STREAM, KNOWN AS THE DARBEE BROOK THAT FLOWS THROUGH THE VILLAGE OF LIBERTY IS AT ABOUT BANK FULL--NO FLOODING HAS OCCURRED AS OF THIS TIME LOCAL HIGHWAY,FIRE, AMBULANCE AND WATER TREATMENT PLANTS NOTIFIED OF FLOOD WARNING AND WILL TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION NEW SNOW: / TOTAL SNOW ON GROUND: / RIVER: / PERCIP YESTERDAY MORNING: / AUTH PAUL H LEROY TAC 11-54AM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 20, 9:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Sullivan | 8 hr |
| Oct 20, 9:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Ulster | 6 hr |
| Oct 20, 12:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Orange | 4 hr |
| Oct 20, 3:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Columbia, Dutchess | 4 hr |
| Oct 20, 6:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Ulster | 5 hr |
| Oct 20, 6:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Orange, Sullivan | 5 hr |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.